Posted on 11/21/2010 4:18:08 PM PST by UB355
On deer hunting opening day, Hortonville teen, Corissa Wege, bags 3 bucks in one hour
By Kathy Walsh Nufer For Wisconsinoutdoorfun.com
DALE Anyone who wonders if this is a good year for deer hunting need only ask Corissa Wege, 16, of Hortonville, or Wayne Freimuth, 53, of Black Creek.
For them, the thrill of the hunt couldn't get any better than what they experienced Saturday on opening day of Wisconsin's annual nine-day gun deer season.
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Wege bagged three bucks a 13-pointer, a 10-pointer and an 8-pointer all within one hour.
"It was really cool," Wege said. "That will probably never happen again. I couldn't believe it."
"They're out there," said a jubilant Freimuth, showing off his prize 12-point buck he was certain would tip the scales at 200 pounds.
"Isn't it amazing, me getting this one and a 16-year-old getting three bucks?" said Freimuth after congratulating Wege. "I told her she's awesome, and she will never top that. They are going to call her dead-eye from now on."
Wege arrived at the Mini-Mart about 10:30 a.m. with her three bucks.
She had been hunting west of Hortonville since 5:30 a.m. with a party of family friends and relatives, including her dad, Tom Wege, who had bagged a 12-pointer while bow hunting earlier this fall.
"They're huge," said Tom Wege, describing how she shot her first buck at 7 a.m. and had just enough time to reload her gun before shooting the second, followed quickly by the third.
"We're done," he laughed. "I took the gun away from her and told her to stop. Between mine and her deer, this is going to cost me $2,000."
Corissa said it was fun to impress her dad with not one, but three deer. "He's pretty much proud of me whenever I go hunting, but this is special," she said.
Freimuth got lucky hunting near Outagamie County M outside Hortonville.
"There was a lot of shooting out there between 6 and 7:30 a.m. a lot of deer. After a couple not so good years it seems a lot better this year," he said.
"I shot this one at exactly 8:30 a.m. The woods were so dry and crisp. I could hear him and then all I could see was antlers coming. It was only a 15-yard shot and I dropped him in his tracks. It is the biggest deer I've ever seen in the woods and I've been hunting nearly 30 years."
Other hunters stopped by Freimuth's truck to admire the buck, comment on the massive rack of antlers and take photos with their cell phone cameras.
"That's a beautiful deer," said Lance Simonis, of Hortonville, as he arrived with the doe he had just shot. "That's a buck of a lifetime."
Lauren Main, manager of Dale's Mini-Mart, said she had registered only about six deer until Wege and Freimuth showed up. Within the next half hour she had registered a total of 16.
Over at Colwitz's Convenience Store in Shiocton, Dylan Van Straten had registered 58 deer as of 11:30 a.m. "Last year we ended up with a total of 164 opening day and we should be well above that this year," he said.
Dick Nikolai, a wildlife biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources checked the teeth of new arrivals to gauge their age and said he was seeing a good range of ages up to 4 and 5 years old and had seen a fair number of deer when he was out hunting earlier.
"Last year was warmer, very quiet and the deer could sneak through easily. This year it's crisp and frosty and the deer are moving. Last year they weren't moving."
As Nikolai checked a buck brought in by Ryan Murray, 15, of Germantown, Murray described his morning in the woods with his cousin Pete Omholt, of Shiocton.
"It was fun. It really got your heart pumping. It's a good day for hunting."
I’m in!
“So don’t hunt, then. But that’s one helluva assumption you’re making about a kid who just had a great day in the field.”
You mean a great day in the killing fields.
I have no problem with someone that goes to harvest a dear each year, but this is excessive greed.
It also touched a sore spot in me, remembering the days when I had a farm, east of Memphis.
I had to spend every weekend of hunting season, chasing filthy low life scumbag red neck poachers from Memphis, that were running wild over my farm.
The only thrill I got was taking a chain saw to their dear stands.
Yep. Also in W. Va. I drove through there some years back, and it was just scary how many of them there were.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“I have no problem with someone that goes to harvest a dear each year, but this is excessive greed.”
Greed? What do you only eat part of the year?
Point being thats a lot of money.
>>>Trying to figure out what the guy is spending $2000 on. Doesnt cost that much to have them butchered, does it?
It adds up depending on what you get done... get some jerky & sausage made, and it could come add up to $2k.
“Nah, she wouldn’t be able to get the full enjoyment of killing an animal there. “
Do you eat meat? Sounds like you’ve never hunted and have no idea what you are talking about.
Its a terrible thing for children to spend time with their dads isn’t it. Much better for them to be on facebook and gettin pregnant.
Do you live in Wisconsin? Me thinks not..........
Last year’s deer harvest in Wisconsin was over 329,000.
So do I and from the story it's absolutely legal. I'm surprised that some here that are conservatives would belittle this young lady. It's a shame that more young people can't get out in the woods with parents and relatives and experience putting food an the table.
I wonder is she’d be willing to part with the backstraps on the 8-pointer?
*smacks lips at the thought of those tasty, tasty backstraps*
I grew up on the Oh Pa border.
They are laying all over the side of the road anytime of year.
Build a snow man and the carrot nose wont last the night.
This requires a bit more ‘splainin don’t you think? No not the deer, your inference. If the boyz walked out in front of the young lady why not drop em?
Mmmm....deer jerky...
*drools*
And just to set you straight, the only bloodthirsty killers here in Idaho are the Canadian gray wolves that have damn near wiped out the deer and elk population. So I guess they're rednecks, too, eh?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
This was just on FNC and the $2K sounds like for taxidermy and processing for those 3 really nice bucks.
and killing deer is good...
Somebody needs a lesson in where your food comes from..
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